Women's Studies Event Assignment

List of Relevant Events: Please note that this list is not yet complete; also, if you know of a pertinent event not on this list, check with me to see whether it meets the criteria for the assignment.

Thursday, February 4, 7:00-9:00 pm, Romita Auditorium

• Film Series: Hair Piece: A Film for Nappy-Headed People and Conjure Women

Sunday, February 7, 3:00 pm, Castle Gallery

• Gallery Talk for opening of Salome art exhibit
• You may simply explore and write about the exhibit as one of the “events”; the full dates are February 7-April 9 and Gallery hours are 10:00-5:00 Tuesday-Friday and noon-4:00 Saturday-Sunday.

Wednesday, February 10, 7:00-9:00 pm, Student Campus Center Room C

• Black Women's Health Issues

Thursday, February 18, 7:00-9:00 pm, Romita Auditorium

• Film Series: Mother of the River, And Still I Rise, and A Place of Rage

Thursday, February 18, 7:00-9:00 pm, Student Campus Center Room C

• Spirit, Black & Female: A Tribute to African-American Womanhood

Tuesday, February 23, 7:00-9:00 pm, Student Campus Center Room C

• Career Insights/Mentoring Series: Women of Color

Thursday, February 25, 7:00-9:00 pm, Student Campus Center Rooms B-C

• The Personal Touch (Terrie Williams)

March: “The Clothesline Project,” to be displayed in the College Center Lobby

Wednesday, March 3, 7:00 pm, Romita Auditorium

• Panel discussion of Salome art exhibit

Thursday, March 4, 7:00-9:00 pm, Romita Auditorium

• Film Series: Your Name in Cellulite, Unbound, Mirror Mirror, Emergence, and Guerrillas in our Midst

Monday, March 8, 9:30-11:00 am, Romita Auditorium (live from the General Assembly Hall of the United Nations)

• “A World Free of Violence Against Women,” UN Interagency Videoconference

Tuesday, March 9, 7:30-9:00 pm, Romita Auditorium (Dowell Lecture)

• “Combating Domestic Violence: Women as Agents for Change” with Lisa A. Linsky (Assistant District Attorney, Westchester County) and Charlotte A. Watson (Executive Director of My Sisters’ Place)

Tuesday, March 23, 12:30-2:00 pm, Student Campus Center Room C

• Myths We Live By: “Women Unbound” (3 students’ senior forum presentations)

Tuesday, March 23, 6:00-7:30 pm, Student Campus Center Room C (includes pizza, soft drinks, and dessert)

• “Auto: Body” 30-minute performance art video about women incarcerated for domestic violence crimes, with producer/director Virginia Cotts as presenter

Thursday, March 25, 7:00-9:00 pm, Romita Auditorium

• Film Series: Alice Neel, The Desert is No Lady, and Visions of the Spirit: A Portrait of Alice Walker

Thursday, March 25, 8:30-10:00 pm, Downstairs Cafe (refreshments)

• International Coffee House: “Women Writing . . . Women Reading”

Saturday, March 27, 2:00 pm - midnight, Romita Auditorium

• International Women: Feature Film Marathon (Honors Program)

Tuesday, March 30, 12:15-2:00 pm, Student Campus Center Room C (refreshments)

• Honors International Speaker: Vasu Varadhan, “Women's Voices in the Diaspora”

Thursday, April 1, 7:00-9:00 pm, Romita Auditorium

• Film Series: In Harm's Way and A Healthy Baby Girl

Wednesday, April 7, 7:30-10:00 pm, Student Campus Center Rooms A-C (food from all nations)

• International Culture Fest: “Education and Women”

Thursday, April 15, 7:00-9:00 pm, Romita Auditorium

• Film Series: Night Cries and Warrior Marks

Tuesday, April 20, 6:30-8:30 pm, Student Campus Center Room C (refreshments)

• Myths We Live By: “Women at Work—Making It Work” (alumnae panel on careers celebrating the Honors Program's 25th Anniversary)

Tuesday, April 22, 12:00-2:00 pm, Student Campus Center Room C (refreshments)

• Celebration of Student Achievement

Wednesday, April 28, 1:00-2:30 pm, Sports Building (continuous program; drop in or stay for full period)

• Second Annual Martial Arts Exhibition—self-defense techniques for women: instructor Juni Watanabe and students

Wednesday, May 5, 12:30-1:45 pm, Fishbowl (refreshments)

• “Centering and the Intuitive Process,” presentation by Barbara Matacotta, therapeutic touch teacher and practitioner